Tuesday, January 10, 2017

This pre-holiday night at The Garrison brought together three local groups each closing out successful years. Vallens is starting to look past the songs on the excellent Consent album — some of the new stuff is leaning even more heavily on Marta Cikojevic's synth textures, giving deeper layers of atmospherics (like those on the swoon-worthy set-closer "Devour").

[Vallens will be part of an amazingly-stacked bill presented by Toronto Women In Music this Saturday (January 14th) at The Baby G, alongside Beliefs, Peeling, and Nyssa.]

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Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.

Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.

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